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FROM: Dr. Maggie Habeeb RE: Math Club Guest Speaker
Sent:
4/4/2022 8:21:54 AM
To: Students, Faculty, Staff

Please join the math club on Thursday, April 7th, at 11 am to welcome Dr. Suzzi Valli from Manhattan College. He will be giving a presentation titled: "The Spider and the Fly on the Cube".  Abstract is below.

 

The zoom link to attend is https://calu.zoom.us/j/97182926990 (Meeting ID: 971 8292 6990).  

 

 

Abstract: In 1903, noted puzzle-maker Henry Dudeney published The Spider and the Fly puzzle in the Weekly Dispatch, a British newspaper. The puzzle asked for the shortest distance along the surfaces of a rectangular room between a spider and a fly, which are located on opposite walls. Our story begins with this age-old problem and takes you through a history of our “cubification” of the original puzzle.